IDG Contributor Network: OS X El Capitan: Remove unwanted Google Chrome apps from Launchpad

A while back I decided to install Google's Chrome browser on my Mac. For a long time I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary until one day I opened Launchpad and found to my annoyance that Google had also installed the following Chrome apps: Google Drive, YouTube, Google Search and Gmail.
I was never asked if I wanted these apps installed in OS X El Capitan on my Mac. Google just installed them without my permission. And here's what really annoyed me: when I pressed down on an app icon to